Early in the morning on Thursday June 20, UC-eLinks went live on the Ex Libris Cloud. This means CDL is no longer hosting the SFX software that runs UC-eLinks. UC Davis also successfully moved its separate SFX instance onto the cloud at Ex Libris at the same time CDL made the migration. CDL will continue to manage UC-eLinks on behalf of University of California libraries. SFX software and knowledge base updates will continue to occur on a regular, weekly basis. There will be no perceived changes for the campuses or end users.

We are pleased to report the data migration process and testing took less than three months to complete, and started and completed on schedule. The implementation was lead by UC-eLinks technical lead, Margery Tibbetts at CDL, and implementation manager, Matt Baker at Ex Libris. CDL’s Debra Bartling played a key role as a technical advisor.

Thanks also to Karl Kocher, Dale Snapp, and James Niffenegger who lead the UC Davis migration.

The CDL UC-eLinks team would like to thank the UC-eLinks administrators, Users Council, HOPS, and all the people who helped coordinate testing on the campuses – with special appreciation who completed the testing.

It is my distinct pleasure to announce the appointment of M. Elizabeth Cowell as our interim University Librarian.

Elizabeth is an associate university librarian for public services at UCSC who joined the campus in 2008. She is a passionate champion of the vital role the modern academic library can play in supporting the research and instructional mission of the university. She is also a tireless advocate for ensuring that libraries meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff.

She brings more than 10 years of management experience in the UC system to this interim appointment. Deeply engaged in UC and national library networks, Elizabeth was recently appointed to the Depository Library Council of the United States Government Printing Office and is incoming chair of UC’s Systemwide Operations, Planning and Advisory Group.

Please join me in welcoming Elizabeth to her new role. Her appointment begins July 15 and will last through June 2014, or until the search for a permanent University Librarian concluded. As previously announced, University Librarian Virginia Steel will assume the post of University Librarian at UCLA on July 15.

As announced today, HathiTrust Digital Library collections, including over 400,000 UC volumes, will be discoverable within the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project. Of HathiTrust’s nearly 11 million volumes, the 3.5 million that are in the public domain or have been made publicly available by rights holders will become a DPLA “content hub”-accessible to DPLA users via the sharing of metadata records. HathiTrust will continue to host and preserve the digitized volumes. In a major new development, OCLC has agreed to apply Creative Commons “CC0″ licenses to the hosted UC catalog records, to remove barriers to providing the records within DPLA’s data sharing agreement.

DPLA provides an online portal to freely-available digital material held by libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. By offering a unified discovery point for these disparate collections, DPLA aims to make readily available to the public the words, images, sounds, and objects of America’s shared cultural heritage. HathiTrust will be by far the largest DPLA content hub, providing a foundation for DPLA’s services.

Appointees announced
Following a selection process coordinated by SOPAG, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has finalized membership for the major groups in the new UC Libraries Advisory Structure. Thanks to all of those who were considered for these positions and thanks also to SOPAG and the UC Libraries Advisory Structure Implementation Team for all the work that went into the development of the new structure and formation of the groups.

By populating the new groups with individuals who possess a range of expertise, we hope to create dynamic teams that can bring a cross-functional approach to their work to meet their charges. The groups will begin meeting in July, and the members are as follows:

Common Knowledge Groups (CKGs) To Be Launched in Fall
The UC Libraries Advisory Structure Implementation Team has laid the foundation for the formation of the Common Knowledge Groups (CKGs). One CKG will start its activity at the same time as the new Advisory Structure, to provide support to the Portfolio Managers from Day One. The development of the other CKGs will be the first responsibility of the Coordinating Committee once it begins its work in July. We anticipate the groups can start their activity in early fall 2013.

Ongoing Work to be Continued
The Advisory Structure Implementation Team has worked with SOPAG to document all of the current ongoing work of the existing All Campus Groups (ACGs) and their subgroups, including Common Interest Groups (CIGs). In addition, the team has added all systemwide services to ensure that no work is lost. These projects will be passed on to the new groups as they begin their work.

For more detailed information about the new UC Libraries Advisory Structure, please check the website at https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/AdvisoryStructureRedesign/UC+Libraries+Advisory+Structure

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Virginia Steel as UCLA’s University Librarian, effective July 15, 2013.
A library director for more than 11 years with significant leadership experience within the University of California system and at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions, Ms. Steel brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and perspective to this critical role. She currently serves as university librarian at UC Santa Cruz and previously served as director of libraries at Washington State University (2001-05), overseeing the libraries on the Pullman campus and coordinating library services across the four WSU campuses. She has also served as associate director for public services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997-2001) and in various positions at UC San Diego (1988-97) and Arizona State University (1981-87). While at UCSD, she was selected for a Council on Library Resources academic library management internship, for which she spent a year at Brown University working closely with senior library and campus administrators.

Throughout her career, Ginny has focused on understanding the information needs of faculty, students and staff, and enhancing and building services and collections to meet those information needs. Ginny has a deep commitment to maintaining strong links to libraries’ campus and external constituencies; in her various roles she has established and fostered strategic partnerships with campus organizations, philanthropists, corporations and foundations to improve services and support for students and faculty and to provide physical and virtual spaces that foster creativity, engagement and a wide range of intellectual pursuits. During her tenure at UCSC, Ginny oversaw a $100 million expansion and renovation of the largest library on campus. After the project’s completion, library use more than doubled and it continues to grow. Ginny was also instrumental in bringing the Grateful Dead Archive to UCSC.

In her role at UCSC, Ginny has been actively engaged on a number of systemwide committees. She currently chairs the UC Council of University Librarians and has played a lead role in the development of a systemwide strategic plan for the UC libraries. She also serves on the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee and the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, and she was a member of the Online Education Pilot Project Advisory Board (2011-12) and the California Digital Library External Review Committee (2010-11). She is also active in the American Library Association and other professional organizations. She was president of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) in 2004-05 and has served on the boards of LAMA and the Greater Western Library Alliance. Her professional contributions include editorships, articles, invited papers, numerous presentations and a video production. She holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and an M.A. from the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago.

I want to thank the search/advisory committee for assembling an outstanding pool of candidates and for its role in recruiting Ginny. The committee was chaired by Alessandro Duranti, distinguished professor of anthropology and dean of the Division of Social Sciences; other members were Johanna Drucker, professor of information studies; William P. Edwards, president of Westwood Investments and member of the UCLA Library Board of Visitors; Alicia Gaspar de Alba, professor of Chicana/o studies, English and gender studies; Lynn K. Gordon, professor of ophthalmology and associate dean for academic diversity in the David Geffen School of Medicine; Kendall N. Houk, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Beverly Lynch, professor of information studies; Kelly Lytle Hernandez, associate professor of history; Jonathan F.S. Post, distinguished professor of English; Todd Presner, professor of Germanic languages, comparative literature and Jewish studies; Timothy Rice, professor of ethnomusicology and director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music; and Francis F. Steen, associate professor of communication studies.

I also want to express our gratitude to Gary Strong for his exemplary service as university librarian since 2003.
We all recognize that our libraries play a critical role in the academic enterprise at UCLA, and I am confident that Ginny will provide outstanding leadership as university librarian. Please join Chancellor Block and me in welcoming her to UCLA and this important role.

Planning for the new UC Libraries Advisory Structure has entered its next phase. The Council of University Librarians has endorsed charges for the primary committees. The committees are now named: the Coordinating Committee; Strategic Action Group 1 (SAG 1): Scholarly Research and Communication; Strategic Action Group 2 (SAG 2): Access, Discovery, and Infrastructure; and Strategic Action Group 3 (SAG 3): Collection Building & Management. A fourth group, the Collection Licensing Subgroup, reports to SAG 3. All of these committee charges can be found on the UC Libraries Advisory Structure public wiki at https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/display/AdvisoryStructureRedesign/UC+Libraries+Advisory+Structure

Next Steps
Each campus will be asked to nominate names for membership on each group with a deadline of May 3. LAUC will be asked to nominate names for membership on the Strategic Action Groups with the same deadline. Nominees will be selected based on their relevant expertise and availability to work on the groups, with the aim of balancing the necessary expertise across the committee (as defined in the charge) to accomplish each group’s work. Recommendations will be forwarded to SOPAG who will send a proposed roster of names to CoUL for final decisions.

The goal is to have the new advisory structure in place by July 1, 2013.

WASHINGTON -Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks announces the appointment of five new members to the Depository Library Council (DLC).
The Council, composed of 15 members each of whom serves a three year term, advises the Public Printer on policy matters relating to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP provides the public with access to authentic, published information from all three branches of the Federal Government in print and electronic formats through partnerships with approximately 1,200 libraries nationwide ranging from small public libraries to large research universities.
“This new group of librarians brings decades of experience and strong leadership to the Depository Library Council,” said Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks. “I look forward to working with each of them and their Council colleagues to advise us on the changing needs of the Federal Depository Library Program as we develop a national plan for the FDLP in the digital age.”

The five new DLC members for the June 1, 2013 – May 31, 2016 term are:
Greta Bever is the Assistant Commissioner for Central Library Services at the Chicago Public Library, which has been a Federal depository library since 1876. In that capacity, she oversees the Government Publications department. From 2003 to 2008, Ms. Bever served as a member of the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board/Illinois State Archive Advisory Board that makes recommendations to the State Archivist and provides advice and assistance to the Illinois State Archives. She has been a member of the Cook County Local Records Board from 2003 to the present.

Roberta Brooker is the State Librarian at the Indiana State Library, a regional Federal depository library that began collecting Federal laws and other Federal materials when it was established in 1824. She brings to Council a government documents background as well as experience as a coordinator for the Indiana State Data Center. Ms. Brooker has an extensive background in training, including teaching government information courses at the Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science. She is a member of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) and the Indiana Library Foundation.
Elizabeth Cowell is the Associate University Librarian for Public Services at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she provides strategic leadership for public service activities locally and UC systemwide. She has extensive government documents experience in several academic libraries and was an active participant in the LOCKSS Alliance. Ms. Cowell also served as one of two regional librarians at the Wisconsin Historical Society. She has contributed numerous presentations and publications to the field and actively participates in professional associations.

Kate Irwin-Smiler is a reference librarian at the Wake Forest University School of Law’s Professional Center Library in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she also serves as coordinator of the depository library collection. She brings to Council expertise on legal information and legal training. Ms. Irwin-Smiler is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and serves on the association’s Federal Depository Library Program Task Force. She is also a member of AALL’s Academic Law Libraries, Government Document and Social Responsibility Special Interest Sections.
Hallie Pritchett is head of the Map and Government Information Library at the University of Georgia, the state’s regional Federal depository library. Ms. Pritchett participates in numerous library associations, including the American Library Association (ALA) and the Georgia Library Association (GLA). She is permanent executive secretary of GLA’s Government Information Interest Group (GIIG), immediate past chair of ALA’s Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT), and current chair of the Regional Government Information Librarians (REGIL).

GPO is the Federal Government’s official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government. The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies in digital and print formats. GPO provides for permanent public access to Federal Government information at no charge through our Federal Digital System, partnerships with approximately 1,200 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program, and our secure online bookstore. For more information, please visit www.gpo.gov.

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/04/09/elizabeth-cowell-ucsc-appointed-to-gpo-depository-library-council/feed/0UC-eLinks is moving to the Ex Libris Cloudhttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/04/03/uc-elinks-is-moving-to-the-ex-libris-cloud-2/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/04/03/uc-elinks-is-moving-to-the-ex-libris-cloud-2/#commentsWed, 03 Apr 2013 22:55:25 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=13956More...]]>After more than a decade of hosting the Ex Libris SFX software that runs UC-eLinks, the CDL is joining a growing number of SFX customers by moving UC-eLinks hosting from CDL to the Ex Libris Cloud. The migration process will take several months and we’re beginning this month.

Why now? The SFX servers at UC are reaching end of life and the software must be migrated to a new environment. By moving hosting to Ex Libris, CDL will gain some cost savings, and will avoid other costs by reducing time spent planning and implementing infrastructure changes for a new host environment at UC.
What does this mean for campuses?
In effect, nothing is changing for campuses. There will be no change to the user interface for end-users, staff, or UC-eLinks administrators who maintain their specific campus-managed titles in UC-eLinks.

CDL will continue to manage UC-eLinks on behalf of University of California libraries. SFX software and knowledge base updates will continue to occur on a regular, weekly basis.
We will need help testing
CDL will ask UC-eLinks administrators and staff to do testing to ensure the system has been successfully moved over to the Ex Libris Cloud. Testing is tentatively set for late May. We anticipate having two rounds of testing. CDL will coordinate testing with HOPS http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/roster, Users Council http://www.cdlib.org/groups/users_council/roster.html and the UC-eLinks campus liaisons: http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/ucelinks/ucelinks_liaisons.html.
UC Davis is joining CDL
As an Ex Libris customer of the Aleph catalog software, UC Davis was the one campus that had its own version of UC-eLinks. UC Davis recently decided to discontinue hosting UC-eLinks on its own server, and will merge with the other UC campuses- all managed by CDL. UC Davis will move its SFX instance onto the cloud at Ex Libris shortly after CDL makes the migration. This change will reduce staff time maintaining, testing, and coordinating updates between UC Davis and CDL.

This information is also in CDLINFO: http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/04/03/uc-elinks-is-moving-to-the-ex-libris-cloud/

]]>http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/04/03/uc-elinks-is-moving-to-the-ex-libris-cloud-2/feed/0CoUL Issues Statement of Support for Dale Askeyhttp://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/04/01/coul-issues-statement-of-support-for-dale-askey/
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/04/01/coul-issues-statement-of-support-for-dale-askey/#commentsMon, 01 Apr 2013 17:11:09 +0000http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/?p=13938More...]]>On March 26, 2013, the UC’s Council of University Librarians issued a statement of support for McMaster University librarian Dale Askey who has been sued by a publisher for making defamatory remarks in a blog post. The CoUL’s statement is linked from the CoUL Documents webpage.